Appendix I: Glossary - the subject gateways

ADAM: (Art, Design, Architecture & Media gateway)

ADAM (Art, Design, Architecture & Media gateway) has been funded under the eLib programme to provide an "information gateway to quality-assured resources" in its subject area (ADAM 1996). It is a 3 year project, and commenced in August 1995.

<URL:http://adam.ac.uk/>

BUBL: (The Bulletin Board for Libraries)

BUBL (The Bulletin Board for Libraries) was created in 1990 when it was part of the Glasgow based Project Jupiter. Following a period of time when it was run on a voluntary basis, since 1994 it has received funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK higher education funding councils. BUBL's original service was intended to serve as a bulletin board for the academic library community (Nicholson 1993). Indeed, in a review of BUBL in Ariadne, Traugott Koch described it as "the Number One Internet resource for librarians" (Koch 1996). However, as BUBL was being used by the wider academic community, its scope was expanded to cover other subject areas and it is now explicitly funded by JISC to provide a subject-based information service. BUBL's original subject-tree approach has now been replaced by a new subject-based approach called LINK (Libraries of Networked Knowledge). LINK classifies all resources in the Dewey Decimal System.

<URL:http://bubl.ac.uk/>

EELS: (Engineering Electronic Library)

EELS (Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden) is a co-operative project of the Swedish University of Technology Libraries and its purpose is to provide an information system for quality assessed engineering resources on the Internet.

<URL:http://eels.lub.lu.se/>

EEVL: (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library)

EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library), an eLib Project based in the UK, is an attempt to "build a gateway for the higher education and research community to facilitate access to high quality information resources in Engineering" (EEVL 1995). It is a 3 year project, and commenced in August 1995.

<URL:http://www.eevl.ac.uk/>

The Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme

Some of the subject gateways (ADAM, EEVL, OMNI, RUDI and SOSIG) have been funded under the UK Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme. The eLib Programme was funded by the UK higher education funding councils in response to the report of the Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group (1993), known as the "Follett Report". The eLib Programme is managed on behalf of the funding councils by the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC). The subject gateways funded by the eLib Programme are part of an Access to Network Resources (ANR) section, designed to "encourage the development of networking navigation tools and the growth of local subject based tools and information servers" (JISC 1994).

<URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/>

NBW: (Nederlandse Basisclassificatie Web)

The Nederlandse Basisclassificatie Web (NBW) or Dutch Classification Web is a retrieval system for Internet resources classified relevant to the Dutch academic community. It was set up by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of the Netherlands) and has been further developed by co-operation with other Dutch academic libraries.

<URL:http://www.konbib.nl/dutchess/>

OMNI: (Organising Medical Networked Information)

OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information), an eLib Project based in the UK, is specifically concerned with 'high quality information' concerning all aspects of medicine. OMNI is a 2 year project which began in the summer of 1995.

<URL:http://omni.ac.uk/>

ROADS: (Resource Organisation And Discovery in Subject-based services)

ROADS (Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based services) has been funded by the eLib programme to design and implement a user-orientated resource discovery system. The ROADS software (Knight and Hamilton 1996) is used by several of the eLib Programme subject gateways.

<URL:http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/>

RUDI: (Resource for Urban Design Information)

RUDI (Resource for Urban Design Information), an eLib Project based in the UK, is investigating the issues surrounding "the creation and development of significant multimedia information resources for research and teaching mounted on wide area computer networks" using the subject area of urban design. The project intends to build up a collection of hypermedia materials on urban design - mostly stored on its own server. RUDI began on the 1 January, and is scheduled to run for three years.

<URL:http://rudi.herts.ac.uk/>

SOSIG: (Social Science Information Gateway)

SOSIG (the Social Science Information Gateway) attempts to help the process of Internet navigation by collecting and organising social science resources. It was begun with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to provide an information gateway to social science resources on the Internet, and has also been funded as an eLib project. It has recently received additional funding from both the ESRC and JISC to extend the project until 1998.

<URL:http://sosig.ac.uk/>

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